Visit the Riverside Museum, University of Chester

View the museum’s curiosities from the world of medicine, nursing, midwifery, and social work and ask your questions of volunteers who will be in attendance.

The four remaining stained-glass windows from Chester Royal Infirmary are also available to view on the first-floor landing opposite the former Council Chamber, in the Wheeler Building.

The permanent collection of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Society (FHMS) Historical Society's Riverside Museum includes some remarkable exhibits including an original letter written by Florence Nightingale written from Balaclava.

The First World War: Returning Home exhibition provides an insight into what a soldier invalided back from the Front would have found on returning to Cheshire. Using local examples wherever possible, the exhibition covers aspects such as medical advances, the psychological effects of war, volunteering and volunteer nurses, a doctor’s country practice, rural life, and social welfare. This exhibition has been created by the FHMS Historical Society volunteers and refurbished with the generous help of the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Heritage.

The Wheeler Building is accessed via a flight of stairs at the front of the building. Requests for disabled access need to be made in advance by phoning 01244 512126 during office hours Monday to Friday.